"O Vater, lass uns ziehn!: A Mythological Background to "Mignon's Italian Song"

A Child in Question

“…The charm of the tune, moreover, was entirely incomparable. ( 11 Is this the child who Freud, amongst others, will come to raise from the dead? A child who through lyric, through psychoanalysis, will come to take on a life of her own?…”